Jonas Lek
Dutch diamond merchant and collector
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Jonas Lek was a Dutch diamond merchant and collector who was involved in an insurance loss case that reached the House of Lords in the United Kingdom in 1927.[1]
Philately
In 1913 Jonas Lek of Holland Park Gardens was the buyer from George Lowden of a parcel of 2679 £1 stamps of King Edward VII, all with a Jersey postmark, for £830. Both the stamps and the postmarks were found to be forgeries resulting in Lowden's conviction for selling forgeries contrary to the Stamp Act.[which?] Lowden was sentenced to three years penal servitude.[2][3][4][5]
In his insurance loss case, Lek was represented by Reginald Croom-Johnson, himself a noted philatelist with a specialist collection of the British Solomon Islands.[6]
